John Wyver writes: Today would have been the 100th birthday of Sam Wanamaker (pictured above as Iago in Stratford in 1959), the American actor and director who conceived the idea and campaigned for many years to build the replica more
John Wyver writes: I am thrilled that my book Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History will be published by Bloomsbury in The Arden Shakespeare series on 27 June. It aspires to be an academic study more
John Wyver writes: The past week was occupied by a hugely enjoyable and completely fascinating research collaboration with director and tutor Ben Naylor, his colleagues and students on the MA Acting, Classical course at the Royal Central more
John Wyver writes: You have just three further weeks to experience the exceptional exhibition Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory at Tate Modern, which closes on 6 May. Having executive produced a BBC2 film about Bonnard back in more
John Wyver writes: Watching expertly-performed musical theatre in tiny spaces is often exhilarating, and so it proves with Maggie May at the Finborough Theatre. Led by Kara Lily Hayworth and James Darch (above, photo by Ali Wright), the more
John Wyver writes: Back in the summer of 1986, writer Sandy Nairne, director Geoff Dunlop and I were in New York filming our 6-part Channel 4 series State of the Art. Sandy had conceived the second programme as an exploration more
John Wyver with links to recent stuff about what we can still just about call television. The cinematic in contemporary television and media: a strong set of selected clips with accompanying short essays from in media res:
moreThis Sunday, 17 March, Battersea Arts Centre are hosting a very special one-off showing of all the films made for the series Performance Live as collaborations between BAC, Arts Council England, BBC Television and a host of cultural organisations and more
For The New York Times, Martha Schwendener has written a fascinating response to the inaugural show at the new Brant Foundation in the East Village (until 15 May) of some 70 works by Jean-Michel Basquiat. 'Jean-Michel Basquiat' at more
John Wyver writes:Tomorrow night (less than four weeks from the scheduled B-Day), at 18.15 on Tuesday 7, I'm chairing a panel at BFI Southbank (tickets here, although there are not many left) with actor Cherie Lunghi (who is more